Arlita Jones is the playwright of the newest production at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park , Summerland .

Local singer Lisa Biales , back from recording in LA, is preparing to release her new CD, The Beat of My Heart .

A song from The John Ford Blues Society . From their self-titled CD, enjoy Brer' Rabbit Blues .

Book review: Roberta Schulz reviews When Grandma Gatewood Took a Hike by Michelle Houts and illustrated by Erica Magnus .

East Walnut Hills' Manifest , now 12 years old, continues to add new programs and present provocative exhibitions.

Cincinnati's Poet Laureate Pauletta Hansel reads her poem Class Lessons from her 2011 collection The Lives We Live In Houses .

The debut novel from Ed Tarkington is a coming-of-age story set in the south in the late 1970's/early 1980's.

Commentary: Rick Pender, Around Cincinnati contributor and executive editor/publisher of the Everything Sondheim online community, talks about the documentary Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened , about the original Broadway staging of Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along . The documentary will be shown on Sunday, January 29 at the Esquire Theatre (1pm) and Dayton's Neon Movies (7pm.)

Choral music director Rhonda Juliano is back with a new group of singers called Fluidity .

Local musician and artist Ellie Fabe has put pen to paper to create an illustrated version of a classic Jane Austen novel.